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Jeffers (DD 621)
ex-DMS-27
ex-DD-621



Call sign:
November - Bravo - Victor - Foxtrot
Gleaves Class Destroyer/Ellyson Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 25 March 1942 at Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., Kearny, NJ; Launched 26 August 1942; Commissioned USS Jeffers (DD-621), 5 November 1942; Reclassified and converted to a Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-27, 15 November 1944; Decommissioned 23 May 1955 at Charleston, SC; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Charleston Group; Reclassified back to a Destroyer, DD-621, 15 June 1955; Moved to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange, TX; Struck from the Naval Register 1 July 1971; Sold for scrap 1 May 1973 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service.

Specifications: Displacement 1,630 t.(lt), 2,200 t.(fl); Length 348' 3"; Beam 36' 1" ; Draft 13' 9"; Speed 37 kts; Complement 272; Armament three 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts and two quad 40mm mounts; Propulsion four Babcock and Wilcox boilers, two 50,000shp Westinghouse turbines, De Laval double reduction gear, two shafts.

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USS Jeffers (DD 621)
Jeffers 83k 6 January 1943
Off New York Navy Yard
National Archives photo 19-N-40461		 Joe Radigan
USS Jeffers (DMS 27)
Jeffers 72k - Gene Fanton, PCC, USN, Ret.
Jeffers 232k Underway, 23 July 1951.
National Archives photo 80-G-479910 from the Naval Historical Center		 Robert Hurst
View the Jeffers (DMS-27)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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